Title: Arkansas ACORN Records
Inclusive Dates: 1970-1998

Creator:

• Arkansas ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)

Call Number: M2002-002

Quantity: 23.0 c.f. (23 record center cartons), 17 photographs (1 folder), and 2 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the first ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) office, founded in Little Rock (Arkansas) in June 1970 which later became the Arkansas branch of the national ACORN organization which moved its Organizing and Support Center to New Orleans in 1978. The records of ACORN-Arkansas include those of the founding group as well as those of the subsequent branch office. Included are campaign records documenting the activities of the organization concerning unemployment and jobs, utilities lifeline electric rates and generating plant construction, a suit to block the Mills Freeway in Little Rock, generic drug pricing, eyeglass price advertising, sales and property taxes, municipal spending of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grants, utilites and pollution, and housing.

Note:

This accession includes all materials from previous accessions M95-033, M95-142, M96-137, and M98-184.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2002002

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The records consist of minutes, correspondence, administrative records, staff files, press releases, news clippings, community organizer reports, community organizations records, and campaign files.

Acquisition Information

Presented by ACORN-Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas. Accession Number: M2002-002

M2002-002	Administrative
Box   1	Histories of ACORN and its campaigns
Box   1	Constitution, platform [early?]
Box   1	Articles by Wade Rathke
Box   1	General articles about ACORN, 1970-1979
Box   1	Organizing plans, models, workshops, training materials
Box   1	Leadership training and development
Box   1	References and contacts
Box   1	Dues system
Box   1	ACORN Consumer Action Group
Box   1	ACORN Food Buyers Club
Box   1	Membership discount system
Box   1	ACORN Service Center
Box   1	Canvassing
Box   1	Membership
Box   1	Finances and fundraising
Box   1	Events
Box   1	Member grievances
Box   1	ACORN News editor notes
Box   1	Memoranda
Box   2	Memoranda (continued)
Box   2	Correspondence
Box   2	Staff files
Box   3	Staff files (continued)
Box   3	Board meeting files--state, regional, city
Box   3	Wade Rathke files
Box   3	Press releases
Box   4	Press releases (continued)
Box   4	Grants
Box   5	ACORN Political Action Committee (APAC)
Box   5	Arkansas Institute for Social Justice (AISJ)
Box   5	Arkansas Community Housing Corporation (ACHC)
Box   6	ACHC (continued)
Box   6	Conventions
Box   7	Conventions (continued)
Box   7	Legislative files
	Radio
Box   7	KABF
Box   8	KABF (continued)
Box   8	AMFM, ABF
Box   8	Regional offices
Box   9-10	Community organizer reports
	Community organizations
Box   11	Conway
Box   11	Fayetteville
Box   11	Fort Smith
Box   11	Jonesboro
Box   12	Jonesboro (continued)
Box   12	Little Rock
Box   13	Little Rock (continued)
Box   14	Little Rock (continued)
Box   14	North Little Rock
Box   14	Pine Bluff
Box   14	Stuttgart
Box   14	Other cities
	Campaigns
Box   15	Anti-inflation
Box   15	Drainage/flooding
Box   15	Health
Box   15	Housing
Box   16	Housing (continued)
Box   16	Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)
Box   16	Jobs
Box   17	Jobs (continued)
Box   17	Mills Expressway
Box   17	Miscellaneous campaigns
Box   18	Pollution
Box   18	School
Box   18	Tax
	Sales
Box   18	Amendment 59
Box   18	Amendment 57
Box   18	Property/equalization
Box   19	Property/equalization (continued)
Box   19	Intangibles/'Bonanza'
Box   19	Other
Box   19	Transportation
Box   19	Utilities
Box   19	Arkansas Power and Light Company (AP&L)
Box   20	AP&L (continued)
Box   20	Lifeline
Box   21	Lifeline (continued)
Box   21	Telephone
Box   22	Telephone (continued)
Box   22	Arkansas/Louisiana Gas Company (ArkLa)
Box   22	Southwestern Electric Power
Box   22	Water/sewers
Box   22	Electric co-operatives
Box   22	Other utilities
Box   23	Miscellany
PH Box   2	Photographs of Arkansas ACORN members
Sound Archive	Audio recordings
	Emergency Food Stamp Conference, January 24, 1972
	Alliance for Justice, December 11, 1983